1492
Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
1852
Harvard wins the first Boat Race between Yale and Harvard. The race is also the first American intercollegiate athletic event
1914
World War I: Germany declares war against France.
1921
Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
1934
Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Führer.
1948
Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
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Let’s hope the House Oversight Committee continues to explore what exactly White House insiders did while Mr. Biden was suffering cognitive challenges—and what incentives they had to keep him in office.--TheWSj, asking the important question speaking to the hierarchy of motives for politicians and where the 'betterment of the nation and its citizens' sits. Or is the 'betterment of the nation' merely an unrelated by-product of politics and personal ambition?
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Leftist billionaires backed a secret geo-engineering experiment to dim the sun, according to a Sunday story in Politico on the University of Washington’s Marine Cloud Brightening Research Program. They want to block the sun!
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vicissitude
MEANING:
noun: A change in circumstances, typically one that is unwelcome.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin vicis (turn, change). Ultimately from the Indo-European root weik- (to bend or wind), which also gave us weak, week, wicket, wicker, vicarious, and vicar. Earliest documented use: 1576.
NOTES:
The word is often used in the plural, vicissitudes, for the ups and downs of life. As these things go, when the word is used, usually it’s more downs than ups.
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Christ must have laughed because, in fact, He is the judge and arbitrator. But, importantly, the question was not simply about money, it was about justice, which we all think of as an abstract universal value.
Christ's answer implies a lot. Wealth is of this world, a small, transitory spot of time and place in eternity.
Let’s hope the House Oversight Committee continues to explore what exactly White House insiders did while Mr. Biden was suffering cognitive challenges—and what incentives they had to keep him in office.--TheWSj, asking the important question speaking to the hierarchy of motives for politicians and where the 'betterment of the nation and its citizens' sits. Or is the 'betterment of the nation' merely an unrelated by-product of politics and personal ambition?
***
Leftist billionaires backed a secret geo-engineering experiment to dim the sun, according to a Sunday story in Politico on the University of Washington’s Marine Cloud Brightening Research Program. They want to block the sun!
***
vicissitude
MEANING:
noun: A change in circumstances, typically one that is unwelcome.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin vicis (turn, change). Ultimately from the Indo-European root weik- (to bend or wind), which also gave us weak, week, wicket, wicker, vicarious, and vicar. Earliest documented use: 1576.
NOTES:
The word is often used in the plural, vicissitudes, for the ups and downs of life. As these things go, when the word is used, usually it’s more downs than ups.
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Sunday/Earthly Wealth
In today's gospel, a man in the crowd asks Christ to tell his brother to share their father's inheritance with him. Christ says, “Friend, who appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?” He then talks about the insignificance of earthly riches.
Christ must have laughed because, in fact, He is the judge and arbitrator. But, importantly, the question was not simply about money, it was about justice, which we all think of as an abstract universal value.
Christ's answer implies a lot. Wealth is of this world, a small, transitory spot of time and place in eternity.
And, perhaps, so is justice.
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